Adjustable stovepipe.



S. F. FAIRBANK.

ADJUSTABLE STOVEPIPE.

APPLICATION nuzn NQV. 12. 1917.

1,257,071 Patented Feb.19,1918.

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i 1 gaging the "as shown in wedge shaped piece or strip? is moved downward acting upon the to clamp the-bead 3 in the bead 10 an'd hold the section 1 firmly. V V

For convenience in shifting the wedge shaped piece or strip 8 its lower end is provided with a tongue 12 narrower than the lower end of the piece or' strip 8 so as to pass freely between the lower ends of the edges of the main portion, and this tongue is bent upward and then outward to form a shoulder or hand hold 13, the extreme end, of'the tongue being bent inward against the 7 body of the piece or strip and riveted or otherwise vsecured to it as shown at 14.

The adpistmg section and the halfsection shown at'l are preferablyarranged to be furnished to the user together and to form together a length equivalent to that of an ordinary stove pipe section when arranged Fig.v 1 but capableof being shortened to little more than half the length of the ordinary stoveip'ipe'section. if less than a half length is required the half section 1 may be discarded and'the lower end end as'to'leave an'end portion adapted for insertion into the end of a Stovepipe section,'and a wedge shaped piece having its edges bent outward into hook' form andeninwardlybent edges of. the main portionand having at its narrow endan end portion extending beyond the outwardly bent edges andadapted to fit within the end V of said stove pipe section, the wedge shaped Copies of this patent-may be obtained for edges of the mainportion to draw them toward each other and clined to I into hook form and having a circumferential piece being wholly within the lines o'f the' main portion. v V

7 2. An adust-ing section for stove pipes comprising a main portion consisting of a sheet of material bent into approximately cylindrical form with its'adjacent edges inclined to the vertical line and bent inward into hook form and havmg a circumferential bead near oneend at Such distance from the end asto" leave an end portion adapted forinsertion into the end of a stove pipe section,

and a wedge shaped piece havingit's edges the inwardly bent edges of the main portion and having" at itsnarrow end an end p91- tion extending beyond the outwardly bent edges and adapted to saidstove pipe section, the wedge shaped piece being wholly withinthe lines of the main portion, said main portion having at bent outward intohook form and engaging V r fitwithin the end 0i i the end opposite that adapted for insertion 7 into the end of a stove pipe section, a cirbead adapted to fit over a cor-' cumferential responding bead on a stove pipe sectiorn:

3. An adjusting section for stove pipes comprising a main sheet of material bent into approximately.

cylindrical form withits adjacent edges'inthe vertical line and bent inward bead near one end at such. distance from the end as toleave an end portion'adapted for.

insertion into the end of a stovepipe section, r

and a wedge shaped piece having its edges bent outwardinto hook form and engaging portion consisting of a the inwardly bent edges of the main portion, V

and having at itsnarrow endan end portion extendingbeyond the outwardly vbent edges and adapted to fit. with n the end of. said stovepipesection and having at its broad end a tongue bent upward and outward to forma'handle. 7 In testimony whereof I afiix mys gnature this 29th day of .October, 1917,.

1 SILAS F; rAInBANni five cents ma addressing'the Commissioner of Patients, Washing '0' Y r t 

